dOCUMENTA (13) EDITIONS

Besides in drawing and film, the German artist primarily works with printing techniques like woodcut and silkscreen. For dOCUMENTA (13) editions, she chose an image from her video work Ostia’s Little Sisters (2012). The detail of an artificial light palm tree is exposed in front of a bright blue sky.

Andrea Büttner, born 1972 in Stuttgart, lives in London and Frankfurt am Main.

The photograph shows the set of the film Rushes (2012), presented at the Kassel Hauptbahnhof. The film is a time travel through three centuries in three acts that deals with notions of imprisonment and liberation. The film is set in in the former monastery of Breitenau near Kassel—a place that had been transformed into a prison, then, under the NS regime, into a concentration and work camp, and later served as a girls’ reformatory.

The photograph is part of his installation in a formr bakery on Friedrichstraße 28 in Kassel. Alÿs’ film REEL–UNREEL (2011) for dOCUMENTA (13) is accompanied by pstcard-sizedstudies on paper and canvas. Here he explores the experience of artists between the fronts of armed conflict.